<Galleries>  <Gallery title="Vessels">       <Object name="Gallery Hélène Porée 2009">	<Image pic="Migrations et Paysages Urbains" path="images/ss/hp1.jpg" year="view street level" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Migrations et Paysages Urbains" path="images/ss/hp2.jpg" year="view upper level" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Migrations et Paysages Urbains" path="images/ss/hp3.jpg" year="view upper level. Montgolfières + Obelisks" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Migrations et Paysages Urbains" path="images/ss/hp4.jpg" year="view upper level. Montgolfières + Obelisks" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Red Montgolfieres Family" path="images/ss/hp5.jpg" year="h 28.5 ­ 32.5cm d 15 ­ 19cm" Dimensions="Lost in Antiquity" Photographer="h 36 ­ 50cm, d 9 ­ 11.5cm" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[This Springtime showing in Paris at the Hélène Porée Gallery, just off l’Odeon in Paris’s sixth arondissement, marked the debut of a whole new direction in vessel form blown sculptures for us. The theme focused on urban landscapes and the architectural graphics found in the choreography of urbanism. The new work pushes our use of Italian cutting techniques still further, using specially made new wheels for cutting both the surface of the glass and the deepening walls of glass veritical to the cuts.The rounder “mongolfier” series placed among these “obelisks” of urban architecture symbolize man’s unending nomadic imperative, stopping along the way to build civilizations and great cities, architectural monuments and souvenirs of the ages of man.]]>	      </Object>        <Object name="Oisterwijk Sculptuur 2008">	<Image pic="Pagan Remembrance" path="images/ss/Pagan-Remembrance-1.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 420cm w 140cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Pagan Remembrance" path="images/ss/Pagan-Remembrance-2.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 420cm w 140cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Pagan Remembrance" path="images/ss/paganrenew.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 420cm w 140cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Oisterwijk Sculptuur 2008" path="images/ss/Pagan-Remembrance-3.jpg" year="" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Oisterwijk Sculptuur 2008" path="images/ss/Pagan-Remembrance-4.jpg" year="" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Zephyrs" path="images/ss/Zephyrs-copy.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 110 ­ 120cm, w 12 ­ 14.5cm (excl.metal)" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[In 2008 the annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition sponsored by the Etienne van den Doel Gallery in Holland offered us the opportunity to create an ambitious new work, Pagan Remembrance, in honor of the Summer Solstice and our long cultural and spiritual roots going back over more than ten thousand years. Visit <a href="http://www.etiennegallery.nl" target="_blank">www.etiennegallery.nl</a>]]>	      </Object>	  	  	<Object name="6, Mandel 2008">	<Image pic="Black and White Catapault" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-1.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 280cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="View downstairs" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-2.jpg" year="" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The Long Green Step" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-3.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 59cm w 23x25" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Timorous Totem" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-4.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 150cm w 15cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Zephyrs" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-5.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 107 ­ 125cm, w 12,5 ­ 14cm  (excl.metal)" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Zephyrs" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-6.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 107 ­ 125cm, w 12,5 ­ 14cm  (excl.metal)" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Zephyrs" path="images/ss/6.Mandel-7.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 107 ­ 125cm, w 12,5 ­ 14cm  (excl.metal)" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[<span class="bodytext">5 minute tv interview, ("Question Maison", France 5) with Philip and Monica in Paris, April, 2008.</span> <a href="events_6mandel.html"><font color="#990000">Click here to view</font></a>.<br><br>6 Mandel is a private house in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris, in a beautiful setting adjacent to Trocadero and overlooking the Eiffel Tower. The house is owned by landscape architect Jean-Christophe Stoerkel, where we were invited to make a special exhibition of our work in the Spring of 2008. Visit <a href="http://www.nathaliebereau.com" target="_blank">www.nathaliebereau.com</a>]]>	      </Object>	  	          <Object name="Feature Film Documentary 2007">	<Image pic="Feature Film Documentary" path="images/ss/documentary-spheres.jpg" year="2007" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Feature Film Documentary" path="images/ss/documentary-vessel.jpg" year="2007" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Award-winning Swiss film director Pierre Kalbfuss has made a full length feature documentary about us and our work, which premiered on Swiss national television on June 1st, 2007. It is an in-depth portrait of our collaboration and creations, including visits to the Murano cold-shop, Venini, studio hot-shop in Paris, SOFA, galleries, interviews with curators (David McFadden, Dan Klein, Jean-Luc Olivie), galleries (Tom Riley, Sandra Ainsley) and much ambiance: Paris, Venice, New York and Toronto. Not so much a propoaganda piece as the filmmaker's own interpretation of us and our collaboration. Original score by renowned French film composer Louis Crellier, 158 minutes. Available in DVD for ordering from October 2008, in PAL or NTSC.<br><br><a href="film.html"><font color="#990000">Click here to view video trailer</font></a>]]>	      </Object>      <Object name="Blvd de Sculptures 2002 and Oisterwijk Sculptuur 2006">	<Image pic="Oisterwiijk Sculptuur" path="images/ss/Blvd1-revised.jpg" year="The Gateway 2006" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Oisterwiijk Sculptuur" path="images/ss/Blvd2-resized.jpg" year="The Passage 2006" Dimensions="h 300cm w 25 x 120cm" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Boulevard des Sculptures" path="images/ss/Blvd3-resized.jpg" year="The Picnic 2002" Dimensions="Guardians and Spheres" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Boulevard des Sculptures" path="images/ss/Blvd4-resized.jpg" year="The Picnic 2002" Dimensions="Guardians and Spheres" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[The Gallery Etienne van den Doel every year since 2001 has organized their outdoor sculpture festival in the small town of Oisterwijk in Holland (previously at Kijkduin beach in the Hague). Over thirty artists working in glass, ceramic, metal, and stone from all over Europe were invited to participate. This year's exhibition featured major works from Chihuly, USA and Raborama of Italy, as well as a dozen European glass sculptors. Co-sponsored by the town of Oijsterwijk, the exhibition is now an annual event attracting over 100,000 visitors in its two weeks of presentation. The 2007 edition will run from June 1 to June 17.]]>      </Object>      <Object name="Country Hotel 2006">	<Image pic="The  Blue Gateway 2006" path="images/ss/bluegateway-1.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The  Blue Gateway 2006" path="images/ss/bluegateway-2.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The  Blue Gateway 2006" path="images/ss/bluegateway-3.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 230cm w 110 x 60cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Casablanca 2006" path="images/ss/casablanca-1.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 100cm w 150 x 120cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Casablanca 2006" path="images/ss/casablanca-2.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 100cm w 150 x 120cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Red Arc 2006" path="images/ss/redarc-only.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 320cm w 180cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Jazz Notes and Red Reef" path="images/ss/guardians-only.jpg" year="Guardian 2006" Dimensions="h 114cm - 122cm d 12.5cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Standing Spheres" path="images/ss/stanspheres-only.jpg" year="" Dimensions="d 32cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="The Zephyrs" path="images/ss/zephyrs-only.jpg" year="" Dimensions="h 100-130cm d 11.5 - 14cm" Photographer="Ph: Ch. Lehmann" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[This piece is representative of a new, growing body of work designed to be part of the landscape, both interior and exterior. It is intended as a visual  and sculptural gateway, a fantasy through which ideas and visions may flow. The sculpture is a part of its visual  horizon which may be observed through the merging spheres. As well it is a separate whole, a purely sculptural phenomenon, in which metal and glass, color and light merge, combine, cross, and stand apart in their own idiosyncratic manner. The Vieux Manoir is an old, renowned Swiss hotel on the border of a small Swiss lake by Morat (Murten) which in Winter might possibly remind one of The Shining! It's a five star hotel and member of the famous Relais et Chateaux Hotel group.  In summer it is beautifully planted in a comfortable and relaxed ambiance. We were attracted by the beautiful park and the three hundred year old trees. Across the small lake lies the Vully with its own particular wines, and the village of Motier, where Monica spent many childhood summers with her family. Invited to install a variety of work both inside and outside the hotel for the summer, shared here are some of the pieces we have installed. The show runs through September 2nd. The hotel is located twenty minutes from Bern, and about two hours from Geneva.]]>      </Object>      <Object name="McColl Center for the Arts 2006">	<Image pic="McColl Center for the Arts 2006" path="images/ss/McColl-1.jpg" year="Vessels, Guardians and Standing Sphere Pieces" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="McColl Center for the Arts 2006" path="images/ss/McColl-2.jpg" year="Vessels, Guardians and Standing Sphere Pieces" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="McColl Center for the Arts 2006" path="images/ss/McColl-3.jpg" year="Vessels, Guardians and Standing Sphere Pieces" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="McColl Center for the Arts 2006" path="images/ss/McColl-4.jpg" year="Vessels, Guardians and Standing Sphere Pieces" Dimensions="" Photographer="" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Organized through the sponsorship of Robert Smith of Robert Smith Fine Art, this was a major exhibition featuring thirty works composed of Vessels, Guardians, and Standing Sphere Pieces. The McColl Center is a large arts education center in downtown Charlotte in a beautifully renovated city church. Over eight hundred people were present at the opening!]]>      </Object>	  	        <Object name="The Circus of Spheres 2004">	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs1.jpg" year="general view" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs2.jpg" year="general view with Guardians, textil and" Dimensions="High Wire Act" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs3.jpg" year="general view of Catapault and detail of" Dimensions="The Archer" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs4.jpg" year="general view with Circo di Lune" Dimensions="and Topkapi, both for Venini" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs5.jpg" year="detail of Circo di Lune and Abaco lamps," Dimensions="all for Venini" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs6.jpg" year="general view with Circo di Lune, for Venini" Dimensions="and the Ball Wall screen" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[In 1998 we made our first lamp for Venini, <strong>Abaco</strong> which was, and remains, a great success. Some years later Venini challenged us to do a large scale sculptural project. The result was <strong>Circo di Lune</strong>, a series of framed walls of metal with glass spheres, for which Abaco was the original inspiration. This became part of an  entire new body of work, standing sphere sculptures, lighting, chandeliers, installations, a journey that continues to evolve to this day (see "Spheres" and “Installations“).The  <strong>mudac</strong> Museum in Lausanne kicked off a travelling museum show series <strong>Circus of Spheres</strong>, which wove together these two strands, introducing our  first sphere and metal sculptures, and incorporating the Venini objects.]]>	      </Object>	  <Object name="The Circus of Spheres 2004">	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs1.jpg" year="general view" Dimensions="" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs2.jpg" year="general view with Guardians, textil and" Dimensions="High Wire Act" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs3.jpg" year="general view of Catapault and detail of" Dimensions="The Archer" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs4.jpg" year="general view with Circo di Lune" Dimensions="and Topkapi, both for Venini" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs5.jpg" year="detail of Circo di Lune and Abaco lamps," Dimensions="all for Venini" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" />	<Image pic="Circus of Spheres, mudac" path="images/ss/cs6.jpg" year="general view with Circo di Lune, for Venini" Dimensions="and the Ball Wall screen" Photographer="Ph : Ch.Lehmann" ExternalURL="" /><![CDATA[Organized through the sponsorship of Robert Smith of Robert Smith Fine Art, this was a major exhibition featuring thirty works composed of Vessels, Guardians, and Standing Sphere Pieces. The McColl Center is a large arts education center in downtown Charlotte in a beautifully renovated city church. Over eight hundred people were present at the opening!]]>      </Object>  </Gallery></Galleries>
